The dead cats all bear the same hallmark – a combination of decapitation, removal of the tail or removal of paws.
SNARL has spearheaded the search for the cat killer – initially dubbed the Croydon Cat Killer before the murderous range widened to the M25 and then across the UK.

Mr Jenkins said vets who had examined the corpses found they were all killed the same way.

“They were killed with blunt force trauma and then cut up and mutilated with a knife – unless there’s any animal you know that can handle a knife, it’s a human.”

He said it’s unlikely a fox would attack a live, healthy cat and that if it came across a dead cat, it would focus on its stomach, not the head, tail or paws.

“Foxes don’t attack live cats. It’s a myth” he said.

Due to the sheer number of mutilated cats that have been discovered over the last 15 months, any bodies or body parts with the same recognisable injuries – a clean wound made by a bladed object – are being stored until a suspect is arrested.

Foxes have also been targeted in a similar manner, with injuries that “exactly match” those sustained by the cats, Mr Jenkins revealed.

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“Two foxes have been found beheaded and with injuries that exactly match the cats, one in Croydon, another in Bromley.

“It is very typical to have no blood on the scene.”

Boudicca Rising, co-founder of SNARL, said: “When we see injuries that are familiar we can say that is most likely to be connected and those injuries today matched the others.

“Obviously, we can’t say much about the owners but they are pretty shocked and the lady that found the cat was shocked too.”

The Metropolitan Police began investigating the killings in November 2015, under the name Operation Takahe.
The probe began after headless cats were found in Croydon, Streatham, Mitcham Common, Sutton, Charlton, Peckham and Finchley.

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A vet found raw chicken in the stomachs of a number of the cats, suggesting the killer was luring them to their deaths with meat titbits.

The RSPCA believes they were killed by blunt trauma, possibly from a moving vehicle but SNARL said some may have been thrown against a wall.

It’s thought the psycho cuts off the heads and tails to retain as grisly “trophies”.

More than 30,000 disgusted residents signed a petition demanding DNA testing on the corpses in the hope of getting a match but so far no human DNA has been recovered.

Other deaths have been reported in Maidstone and Sevenoaks, and Doc Martin actor Martin Clunes used social media begging people to help catch the killer.

In an email to Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, the actor said: “As someone who shares my home with several four-legged companions I read with horror that some of the cats had been decapitated, disemboweled or dismembered – this is the stuff of nightmares.”

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